Senior DevSecOps Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Мексика
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Senior level
Computer Vision • Software
The Role
Hands-on Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD pipelines. Integrate security into SDLC, implement policy-as-code guardrails, strengthen container and supply-chain security, automate controls, support incident response, translate compliance into engineering controls, and mentor teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are looking for a hands-on Senior DevSecOps Engineer to help build secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD pipelines. You will work closely with engineering and platform teams to integrate security into the software delivery lifecycle and make secure-by-default practices easy to adopt.

The role combines DevSecOps, cloud security, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes security, and software supply-chain security, with a strong focus on practical engineering and automation.

Project Details
  • Start: ASAP
  • Project duration: 12 months+
  • Locations: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico
  • Working hours: EST business hours
  • English: B2+
Responsibilities
  • Integrate security into cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and developer self-service workflows.
  • Design and implement secure-by-default patterns for IAM, workload identity, secrets management, network security, infrastructure as code, application deployment, and workload protection.
  • Assess the current security landscape, identify gaps and risks, and establish scalable security practices within DevOps and platform teams.
  • Build automated, risk-based security guardrails across source control, container builds, infrastructure changes, and application deployments using policy-as-code.
  • Strengthen Kubernetes, container, and software supply-chain security, including cluster configuration, workload isolation, ingress, admission controls, runtime protection, dependency management, SBOMs, artifact signing, and build provenance.
  • Partner with engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities and security misconfigurations across cloud, Kubernetes, and CI/CD environments.
  • Support security incident response across infrastructure and delivery systems, including investigation, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvements.
  • Translate security, regulatory, and audit requirements into practical and maintainable engineering controls.
  • Create automation, documentation, runbooks, and security standards, while mentoring engineers on DevSecOps best practices.
Requirements
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevSecOps, DevOps, Cloud Security, Platform Engineering, or a related role, with significant responsibility for security engineering and automation.
  • Strong hands-on experience securing AWS or Google Cloud, including IAM, workload identity, networking, encryption, logging, and cloud-native security controls.
  • Deep experience operating and securing Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including managed platforms such as Amazon EKS or Google Kubernetes Engine.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, dependency management, policy enforcement, and safe change management.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD and release engineering, including artifact security, deployment controls, approval gates, trusted builds, and rollback strategies.
  • Experience implementing automated security controls such as vulnerability and dependency scanning, container image scanning, secrets detection, policy-as-code, infrastructure scanning, cloud configuration assessment, and software supply-chain security.
  • Strong scripting or programming skills for automation, integrations, tooling, and operational problem-solving.
  • Experience working in regulated or audited environments and translating frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HITRUST, or SOX into engineering controls.
  • Strong communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to balance security, reliability, developer experience, maintainability, and delivery speed.
  • English: B2+ or higher.
Nice to have
  • Experience with Terraform Cloud, including workspace management, policy controls, remote execution, and state governance.
  • Experience with GitOps and delivery platforms such as Argo CD, Harness, or Codefresh.
  • Experience with observability and incident-management platforms such as Datadog, Groundcover, or PagerDuty.
  • Experience with cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, workload/runtime protection, and endpoint security platforms such as Qualys, CrowdStrike, Prisma Cloud, Lacework, Wiz, or comparable tools.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years hands-on experience in DevSecOps, DevOps, Cloud Security, Platform Engineering, or related role
  • Hands-on experience securing AWS or Google Cloud (IAM, workload identity, networking, encryption, logging, cloud-native security controls)
  • Deep experience operating and securing Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including managed platforms (EKS or GKE)
  • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (reusable modules, dependency management, policy enforcement, safe change management)
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD and release engineering (artifact security, deployment controls, approval gates, trusted builds, rollback strategies)
  • Experience implementing automated security controls: vulnerability/dependency scanning, container image scanning, secrets detection, policy-as-code, infra scanning, cloud config assessment, software supply-chain security
  • Strong scripting or programming skills for automation, integrations, tooling, and operational problem-solving
  • Experience working in regulated or audited environments and mapping HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HITRUST, or SOX to engineering controls
  • Strong communication and technical leadership skills, ability to balance security, reliability, developer experience, maintainability, and delivery speed
  • English proficiency B2+ or higher
  • Experience with Terraform Cloud (workspace management, policy controls, remote execution, state governance)
  • Experience with GitOps and delivery platforms such as Argo CD, Harness, or Codefresh
  • Experience with observability and incident-management platforms such as Datadog, Groundcover, or PagerDuty
  • Experience with cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, runtime protection, or endpoint security platforms such as Qualys, CrowdStrike, Prisma Cloud, Lacework, or Wiz
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The Company
HQ: Lexington, KY
1,061 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Founded in 2015, Helpware is a company taking a modern approach to the outsourcing industry. We created the company to change perceptions of what outsourcing is and can be, and we did that by building amazing cultures in each of our locations, and by simply treating our employees better. With Helpware, we are all a team and family, and you'll see that true difference when partnering with us. Helpware builds customized teams in Customer Service and Back Office for industry-leading startups and modern companies. With offices in California, Colorado, Kentucky, Ukraine, Philippines, Germany, and Mexico, we have the global scale to tailor custom teams and processes for success to our many powerhouse clients. Helpware has grown over the years, initially catering to startup client partners, and has now evolved into creating client partnerships with large enterprises as well.

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